Table 37
describes the effect of merging fabrics with the same fabric-wide consistency policy that have
SCC, DCC, or both policies.
Table 37
Merging fabrics with matching fabric-wide consistency policies
Fabric-wide
consistency policy
None
Tolerant
Strict
1.
To resolve the policy conflict, manually distribute the database you want to use to the switch with the mismatched
database. Until the conflict is resolved, commands such as fddcfg --fabwideset and secpolicy activate are blocked.
Non-matching fabric-wide consistency policies
You may encounter one of the following two scenarios described in
Merging a fabric with a strict policy to a fabric with an absent, tolerant, or non-matching strict policy. The
merge fails and the ports are disabled.
Table 38
shows merges that are not supported.
Table 38
Examples of strict fabric merges
Fabric-wide consistency policy setting
Strict/Tolerant
Strict/Absent
Strict/Strict
Table 39
has a matrix of merging fabrics with tolerant and absent policies.
Fabric A
Fabric B
ACL policies
ACL policies
None
None
None
SCC/DCC
None
None
None
SCC/DCC
SCC/DCC
SCC/DCC
None
None
None
SCC/DCC
Matching
Matching
SCC/DCC
SCC/DCC
Different
Different
SCC/DCC
SCC/DCC
policies
policies
Fabric A
Fabric B
SCC:S;DCC:S
SCC;DCC:S
SCC;DCC:S
SCC:S;DCC
SCC:S;DCC:S
SCC:S
DCC:S
SCC:S
DCC:S
Merge
Database copied
results
Succeeds
No ACL policies copied.
Succeeds
No ACL policies copied.
Succeeds
No ACL policies copied.
Succeeds
ACL policies are copied from
B to A.
Succeeds
If A and B policies do not
match, a warning displays
and policy commands are
1
disabled
.
Succeeds
No ACL policies copied.
Succeeds
ACL policies are copied from
B to A.
Succeeds
No ACL policies copied.
Fails
Ports are disabled.
Table 38
and
Table
Expected behavior
Ports connecting switches are
disabled.
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